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Also, I updated the setup.py for two small things. I recommend using code
checkers like pyflakes and pylint:
$ pyflakes *.py debbindiff/*.py
debbindiff/difference.py:20: 'difflib' imported but unused
debbindiff/difference.py:41: redefinition of function 'comment' from line 37
hans@palatschinken debbindiff $ pylint *.py debbindiff/*.py
...
.hc
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> Definitely use setup.py. It makes the packaging easy and standardized, and it
> is the standard way to build python. It also makes it easy to publish
> releases to pypi, the central package repository for python. I attached a
> quick untested one for you.
>
> .hc
>
> Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've been working at high pace since Sunday on a replacement for the
>> diffp script [1]. These GPLv3 lines of Python are called debbindiff.
>>
>> Get it from Git:
>>
>> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/reproducible/debbindiff.git/
>>
>> Attached is an output produced for the attr package. The new tool is at
>> least as capable as diffp, is way more extensible, and the result is
>> more readable.
>>
>> Example usage:
>>
>> $ ./debbindiff.py --html /tmp/debbindiff.html b1/*.changes b2/*.changes
>>
>> There's no requirements for actually comparing .changes. You can use it
>> to compare jar files directly if that's your kick.
>>
>> I'd love to see reviews of the code. It's scarce on comments but names
>> should be explicit enough, or so I hope.
>>
>> It's missing Debian packaging. I guess I should learn how to write a
>> setup.cfg or similar. Pointers or patches welcome.
>>
>> One thing this codebase should enable is writing “hints”. Once the tree
>> of differences is generated, it should be doable to run through it to
>> generate statements like: “Many files in data.tar have different
>> timestamps, dh_fixmtimes has probably not been called. Are you
>> using dh?” This still needs to be done though.
>>
>> Last note: I've been pushing everything else aside while I had the
>> thrills to work on this. It's unclear when will be the next time, so
>> patches are preferred rather than suggestion.
>>
>> [1]: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/reproducible/misc.git/tree/diffp
>>
>>
>>
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